British female artists

[buckjohnson]

Lily Allen, Adele, Amy, Dusty, Duffy, Estelle. who is the best or your favorite female British import...Liberty or Sammi does not count. :):Bowdown::yayo:

[beaufont]

I am from Britain so my favorite export (not saying best) is Eliza Doolittle. Think she only did one album a couple of years back & probably won't be well known in the State's.

Really cute with a voice that's a little different

[Willie Escalade]

Right now it's Adele...she and Amy stay on my iPhone (and now iPad).

I liked Duffy's first album over her second one.

Whatever happeded to Estelle?

[Ineeda SM]

Lily Allen, Adele, Amy, Dusty, Duffy, Estelle. who is the best or your favorite female British import...Liberty or Sammi does not count. :):Bowdown::yayo:

If Libby doesn't count, then I can't vote. She's the sweetest little import from the U.K. so far.

[MacShreach]

Lily Allen has to be the most annoying singer I've heard in a long time.

[robertlouis]

PJ Harvey, Laura Marling, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Liza Carthy and June Tabor knock spots off all those white-soul wannabees. I do rate Adele - she's in a different league to the others, but if you want to hear real British female talent, for god's sake ignore the charts and the hype.

It's the same in the US. Mary Gaulthier, Ani di Franco and Gillian Welch, to name but three, have more talent in their little fingers than any of the over-rated soul divas.

[MacShreach]

:iagree:What he said.

[robertlouis]

Macshreach, I just spotted Dusty Springfield in your original list. Different league again to all her modern imitators and one of the greatest voices ever. Dusty in Memphis is an essential album for the discerning listener.

[MacShreach]

Macshreach, I just spotted Dusty Springfield in your original list. Different league again to all her modern imitators and one of the greatest voices ever. Dusty in Memphis is an essential album for the discerning listener.
Not my original list--it's buck's thread, not mine, and there is no way I would have included her with the likes of pests like Lily Allen and Duffy. No disagreement on Dusty though.

[loveboof]

my favorite export (not saying best) is Eliza Doolittle.
Yeah, Robert is obviously right - but I don't think any of those ladies he mentioned has/had an arse like this...

Eliza's bum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XsC54zwJcA&lc=QP71B0YxcZjqaVuUoTBo9ux6Jo8DcGPsWNPhHFYiTz4&context=C3f654f5ADOEgsToPDskKaVzyIcvqBnr2dgSL4nbaU )

[EvonRose]

Lily Allen, Adele, Amy, Dusty, Duffy, Estelle. who is the best or your favorite female British import...Liberty or Sammi does not count. :):Bowdown::yayo:

Lady Gaga... She counts as british.

And madonna since she's got the fake accent. lol

[maxpower]

I agree with robertlouis on PJ Harvey. I've liked her since Dry. What about Florence Welch?


Florence and the Machine - Kiss With A Fist (Live on KEXP) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtw2jf9CgEU)

[robertlouis]

Lady Gaga... She counts as british.

And madonna since she's got the fake accent. lol

Come on Evon. We've got enough problems already in the UK without you dumping Lady Gaga on us lol.

[Prospero]

Almost all of the British artists mentioned so far here get my vote too - though the only Eliza Doolittle I know off was the character in my Fair lady. I'd say Dusty is probably numero uno for me - and PJ Harvey is rather mixed.
However what about Julie Driscoll?

Julie Driscoll - Wheel's on Fire - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJZ435EAPco&feature=related)

And let's not forget Marianne Faithfull since her vice changed....
Marianne Faithfull - "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" 1980 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VnA89HFJDM)

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English 12" (Long Version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCKdMpOXYw&feature=related)

[robertlouis]

Yeah, Robert is obviously right - but I don't think any of those ladies he mentioned has/had an arse like this...



I know that most of the "singers" named so far might as well sing out of their arses for all the effect that they have, but at least the ones I've named have genuine talent and vocal ability above the current mob who simply look reasonably pretty, can twat about onstage in a weird frock and spend as much time on their dance moves as their songs.

I dunno - maybe it's the difference between the essentially ephemeral and throwaway nature of the pap that fills the charts and the worthwhile stuff that has its primary UK outlet on Radio 6.

And an honourable place among the greater lights for Amy Winehouse, a sad and unnecessary loss of a real talent.

[Prospero]

I think Lily Allen has an interesting -if slight - appeal. Duffy is just plum duff. And of course we cannot forget the giant that Amy Winehouse might have become

[MacShreach]

And let's not forget Marianne Faithfull since her vice changed....



LOL I thought she just kept hittin em all as hard as she could....

[robertlouis]

- and PJ Harvey is rather mixed.
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That's what makes her so refreshing and unusual. The woman consistently takes risks and tests untried directions. Rather that than the endless rehashes of a previously successful formula which is what most of the music at the industrial end of the creative spectrum is preoccupied with. I'd prefer a bold experiment frpm Polly which is only partially successful to any number of safe and predictable slabs of chart fodder.

[runningdownthatdream]

Don't know if the OP meant to include all singers from the UK or just Britain but here are my contributions with apologies for the long list (I would add more!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyUuW-kOVk&feature=related
Who knows where the time goes - Fairport Convention - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2xODjbfYw8)
Kate Rusby - You Belong to me - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP6us-ZeiSk)
Lisa Hannigan - Little Bird (Official HD Video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRdj8MRj9Js)
Sinead O'Connor - Singing bird - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHJJCCMEo2w&feature=related)

[Prospero]

Sandy Denny - wonderful choice as is the great lead singer of Steeleye Span - Maddy prior.
And then there is the late lamented Kirsty MacColl

Kirsty MacColl They Don't Know - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byhkWlWnQs&feature=related)

And the sorely underrated Sarah Jane Morris - who I saw do a barnstorming set at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club a month ago.

Sarah Jane Morris : "Another Little Piece Of my Heart" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJAthdAtZo)

Sarah Jane Morris - Don't Leave Me This Way.wmv - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zZFsgh1MU&feature=related)

[Gillian]

What about Rumer?

Rumer - Slow - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvYUfwMBCrU&ob=av2e)

[Paulistano]

Wow! What a thread!!!

British music is the best in the world.

Thanks a lot for disclosing artists I've never heard before :Bowdown:

[runningdownthatdream]

What about Rumer?

Rumer - Slow - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvYUfwMBCrU&ob=av2e)

Very nice....reminds me of Karen Carpenter

[Prospero]

Someone will curse me out for calling these two British - but they do come from a country very close to us. The wondrous irish singers Mary Coughlan and Camille Sullivan.

Mary Coughlan　- magdalen laundry - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHWsLYtxzz0&feature=related)

Mary Coughlan - Whisky didn't kill the pain - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FakWLjImQo0&feature=related)

Camille O'Sullivan - All the World is Green - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjQJ-VlMDE&feature=related)

Camille OSullivan LWJH In These Shoes - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZwF0nVsuKg&feature=related)

and a newish irish singer called Imelda may

Imelda May - Johnny Got a Boom Boom - Later With Jools Holland 2008.09.23. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9p0NUNlSk&feature=fvwrel)

[Prospero]

Finally a plug for a singer who should be better known Corinne Bailey Rae. This was her first single... and she later issued a very moving album called The Sea insired by the death of her partner.

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkEeNpWMvgk)

[runningdownthatdream]

Someone will curse me out for calling these two British - but they do come from a country very close to us. The wondrous irish singers Mary Coughlan and Camille Sullivan.

and a newish irish singer called Imelda may



The OP probably wasn't making a distinction between British proper and the rest of the UK.....

I'll also add a few more I think worthy of mention:

Joan Armatrading, who doesn't get enough attention
Joan Armatrading - Willow (Live in the Studio) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3i1GMuyeU)

and Katie Melua who does:
Katie Melua - Closest Thing To Crazy - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVIgW7L8c&feature=related)

[loveboof]

maybe it's the difference between the essentially ephemeral and throwaway nature of the pap that fills the charts and the worthwhile stuff that has its primary UK outlet on Radio 6.

I dunno - it's all subjective isn't it :)

I'm definitely not the right person to promote the crap on the radio these days; but a truly catchy pop tune isn't as throwaway or easy to produce as most people think. Doesn't mean I think much of Jessie J (for example), but apparently she writes her own shitty stuff which all the kids love lol..

What about KT Tunstall?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa8zN4ElAFM

[Prospero]

runningdownthedream.... whoops you made it worse! Ireland (Eire) is NOT part of the UK at all. it is a totally separate nation which happens to speak Engiish and to have been a former UK colony.

[Stavros]

Oh dear oh dear! When I first saw the title of this thread my instant response was Bridget Riley, I then discover that for reasons which escape me, people are listing here today, gone tomorrow pop singers who can count themselves VERY lucky to even have a record released, as artist, where 'artists' might be more appropriate.

Pop singers are not artists, they may be artistic, have artistic pretensions and for all I know hang around with Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin (neither of whom are artists either, hence the camaraderie), but to me this thread should be re-titled British Pop Singers. Then I could finish off my cognac without getting upset.

Look and listen, brothers and sisters:
Sandy Shaw could not sing in tune; Lulu really did just SHOUT!; and Cilla was, well, silly. Sandy Denny, Marianne Faithfull, Julie Driscoll -no need to re-define bland and uninteresting they will do. Annie Lennox? You call that singing? Ever heard fingernails on a blackboard? How about the sound the cat makes when being squashed through a mangle -also known as Kate Bush. Amy Wnehouse and Adele, as I think we have noticed before, are limited in ability, voices which under pressure don't so much spread as disappear, their accents twisted into some form of linguistic aluminium melting under the intensity of its contradictions; unacceptable.

Dusty -the only singer who could ever hold her own space with pride with Aretha Frankling, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner in their prime. The rest is noise.

[runningdownthatdream]

Oh dear oh dear! When I first saw the title of this thread my instant response was Bridget Riley, I then discover that for reasons which escape me, people are listing here today, gone tomorrow pop singers who can count themselves VERY lucky to even have a record released, as artist, where 'artists' might be more appropriate.

Pop singers are not artists, they may be artistic, have artistic pretensions and for all I know hang around with Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin (neither of whom are artists either, hence the camaraderie), but to me this thread should be re-titled British Pop Singers. Then I could finish off my cognac without getting upset.

Look and listen, brothers and sisters:
Sandy Shaw could not sing in tune; Lulu really did just SHOUT!; and Cilla was, well, silly. Sandy Denny, Marianne Faithfull, Julie Driscoll -no need to re-define bland and uninteresting they will do. Annie Lennox? You call that singing? Ever heard fingernails on a blackboard? How about the sound the cat makes when being squashed through a mangle -also known as Kate Bush. Amy Wnehouse and Adele, as I think we have noticed before, are limited in ability, voices which under pressure don't so much spread as disappear, their accents twisted into some form of linguistic aluminium melting under the intensity of its contradictions; unacceptable.

Dusty -the only singer who could ever hold her own space with pride with Aretha Frankling, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner in their prime. The rest is noise.

More drugs and sex will do wonders for you......maybe even a little more fibre in your diet too!

[runningdownthatdream]

runningdownthedream.... whoops you made it worse! Ireland (Eire) is NOT part of the UK at all. it is a totally separate nation which happens to speak Engiish and to have been a former UK colony.

Sorry :) I always think of the Irish as still being a part of the UK - no matter what they say!

[maxpower]

Oh dear oh dear! When I first saw the title of this thread my instant response was Bridget Riley, I then discover that for reasons which escape me, people are listing here today, gone tomorrow pop singers who can count themselves VERY lucky to even have a record released, as artist, where 'artists' might be more appropriate.

Pop singers are not artists, they may be artistic, have artistic pretensions and for all I know hang around with Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin (neither of whom are artists either, hence the camaraderie), but to me this thread should be re-titled British Pop Singers. Then I could finish off my cognac without getting upset.

Look and listen, brothers and sisters:
Sandy Shaw could not sing in tune; Lulu really did just SHOUT!; and Cilla was, well, silly. Sandy Denny, Marianne Faithfull, Julie Driscoll -no need to re-define bland and uninteresting they will do. Annie Lennox? You call that singing? Ever heard fingernails on a blackboard? How about the sound the cat makes when being squashed through a mangle -also known as Kate Bush. Amy Wnehouse and Adele, as I think we have noticed before, are limited in ability, voices which under pressure don't so much spread as disappear, their accents twisted into some form of linguistic aluminium melting under the intensity of its contradictions; unacceptable.

Dusty -the only singer who could ever hold her own space with pride with Aretha Frankling, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner in their prime. The rest is noise.


Oh, hey...the music snob strikes again! We get it...you're old and you don't like anything. That's OK, just go back to sipping your cognac and listening to The Great Lost Folk Music of 17th Century Eastern Lithuanian Barrelmakers, or whatever it is you listen to so you can feel superior to the general populace.